Papago Springs Cave
Basic information
Sample name: Papago Springs Cave
Reference: M. F. Skinner. 1942. The fauna of Papago Springs Cave, Arizona, and a study of Stockoceros; with three new antilocaprids from Nebraska and Arizona. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 80(6):143-220 [ER 3115]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Arizona
Coordinate: 31.61° N, -110.62° W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Max Ma: 0.1076
Min Ma: 0.0267
Age basis: U/Th
Geography comments: "about 5 1/2 miles southeast of Sonoita, Arizona, in the S.E. 1/4 of Sect. 16, T. 21 S., R. 17 E., at an elevation of approximately 5,200 feet"
Czaplewski et al. (1989) report four U/Th dates ranging from 107.6 +/- 3.5 to 26.7 +/- 0.7 ky
Czaplewski et al. (1989) report four U/Th dates ranging from 107.6 +/- 3.5 to 26.7 +/- 0.7 ky
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: cave,fluvial deposit
Habitat comments: sediments were initially carried "from freshets" flowing "into the main room" but "The last deposits of the open cave (stage 2) show it had been used for many seasons by animals"
"Human artifacts... were found mingled with remains of the Recent fauna, but not in the late Pleistocene matrix"
"Human artifacts... were found mingled with remains of the Recent fauna, but not in the late Pleistocene matrix"
Methods
Life forms: bats,carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,birds
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 3471 specimens
Years: 1934, 1936 - 1938, 1940
Sampling comments: five species of land snails are listed but not inventoried
Metadata
Sample number: 3402
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-30 11:13:13
Modified: 2019-08-30 01:34:05
Abundance distribution
34 species
6 singletons
total count 3471
extrapolated richness: 53.4
Fisher's α: 5.232
geometric series k: 0.7834
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.1749
Shannon's H: 0.5476
Good's u: 0.9983
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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